Loud Reports!

[Daniel Cary]

Ear plugs of course and tons of variables .. but has anyone experienced an overly extremely loud shot while not necessarily expecting? Love to hear, thank you.

Time of day perhaps, barometric pressure?

 

[algreffe]

Ear plugs of course and tons of variables .. but has anyone experienced an overly extremely loud shot while not necessarily expecting? Love to hear, thank you.

Time of day perhaps, barometric pressure?

Récemment, j'ai fait du rangement et j'ai retrouvé mon vieux porte-monnaie dans lequel je collecte de la monnaie pour une nouvelle machine à café. Il n'y en avait pas encore assez. Le soir, je suis tombé en ligne sur moja bet et j'ai essayé l'un des slots populaires avec fonction bonus. Au début, c'était laborieux, alors j'ai augmenté ma mise et peu de temps après, le multiplicateur a explosé. La machine à café était presque financée. Et les offres spéciales pour les joueurs de la France sont aussi super. Ça valait vraiment le coup.

Sometimes it's just the terrain—shooting from under a canopy or near a rock face can reflect the sound wave right back at you, making a standard caliber sound like a cannon. Barometric pressure might play a small role, but 90% of the time it’s just the 'geometry' of the spot where you're standing

 

[mdwest]

Sometimes it's just the terrain—shooting from under a canopy or near a rock face can reflect the sound wave right back at you, making a standard caliber sound like a cannon. Barometric pressure might play a small role, but 90% of the time it’s just the 'geometry' of the spot where you're standing

There’s a place in DFW that we occasionally shoot that is outrageously loud… it’s an outdoor range… but the shooting booths are all on a concrete slab, with concrete side walls, and the roof over the shooting booths is metal and angled downward in front of the shooters…

They basically designed and built a giant echo chamber where sound bounces off of everything… and what hits the roof, is angled to come straight back in the shooters face..

It’s not horrible if there are just a couple of shooters on the line… but a Saturday mid afternoon when there are 20 black rifle guys all banging away with their .223’s with giant muzzle brakes attached as fast as they can pull the trigger is a miserable range day…

 

[Daniel Cary]

There’s a place in DFW that we occasionally shoot that is outrageously loud… it’s an outdoor range… but the shooting booths are all on a concrete slab, with concrete side walls, and the roof over the shooting booths is metal and angled downward in front of the shooters…

They basically designed and built a giant echo chamber where sound bounces off of everything… and what hits the roof, is angled to come straight back in the shooters face..

It’s not horrible if there are just a couple of shooters on the line… but a Saturday mid afternoon when there are 20 black rifle guys all banging away with their .223’s with giant muzzle brakes attached as fast as they can pull the trigger is a miserable range day…

Sound, frequencies, certainly have variables .. thanks for sharing!

 

[Daniel Cary]

Sound is a trip, just a bit curious the loudest thing anyone's heard. ?

Many thanks.

 

[spike.t]

Sound is a trip, just a bit curious the loudest thing anyone's heard. ?

Many thanks.

The little shit running the piledriver in my head after a big night out.....

 

[Boyd Brooks]

Loudest sound, 1st full green lap at Daytona in the first row.

 

[Daniel Cary]

The little shit running the piledriver in my head after a big night out.....

ringing the bells in Tibet!

 

[thriller]

Sound is a trip, just a bit curious the loudest thing anyone's heard. ?

Many thanks.

I had a 45/70 revolver with a 7.5 inch barrel once. It was so loud I sold it.

 

[C.W. Richter]

Topography plays a BIG part! So, as a tyke 'had a .30-30 for deer, then graduated to (a borrowed, pump carbine 18.5" 30-06-had a lot of muzzle blast/flames early/late but not that loud) but I knew I had a winner when I traded my teen skills on a '56 Chevy panel deliver (no windows station wagon) hot rod a la Hollywood Knights' Pie Wagon and the guy gave me both cash and a semi custom .300 WM. That, with heavy handloads would report and echo many times, when blissfully shooting deer in the back 110 pasture/woods of an old fam farm. I really miss that sound! I know my ears aren't 100%, beginning with that gun, but it's a really beautiful sound! lol Anytime you're above 60 gr of powder (06) it's going to make a nice sound. WSMs and most LA mid-bore mags: 65-80 gr cap., big mags (90-105 gr) including several A-Sq rounds from today's post, and then the big bore DG guns from 80-120 gr! I love all those sounds, but i particularly miss the crack and echoes of the 300 WM in a "box canyon" as they call it in TX! Over water is also interesting! .257 Wby (62 gr) sounded like the aforementioned! Anything short bbl (carbine, pistol) just blows your ears out, but it's not even the same sound...it's just too close! What? Huh??

 

[Red Leg]

I commanded an artillery battery, battalion, and brigade. You lads have no real idea.

 

[C.W. Richter]

a great friend/neighbor and hunting buddy (20 yrs my senior-still kicking up on the VT/QB border) had a 45-70 trapper version lever rifle (Marlin?) when I was a kid-He said the exact same thing as you and after 2 deer it did his R. and L. ears in! (Of course, for the last several decades he's thanking that gun b/c he can't hear a f'n word his wife has said!) LOL I remember the Ruger and High Standards (could you also fire a .410 shotshell out if it?) Good stuff.

I had a 45/70 revolver with a 7.5 inch barrel once. It was so loud I sold it.

 

[fourfive8]

Loudest “gun” reports I’ve ever experienced have been a couple of large mag rifles shot too close to me without warning, a 500 S&W revolver shooting in adjoining kiosk at an indoor range and an M40 106 recoiless training demo fire.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

My outdoor gun club and range, with everything up to and including a 1,000 yard range, closed down at the end of 2025. Now, I have to go to an indoor range, that does have a 3 lane, 100 yard section all to itself. I wen there the other day to sight in a new 308 I got for a grandson. I could see through the window that there was one shooter and a RSO inside the 100 yard range area. I put my ear muffs on and entered through the double set of doors (air lock for the air filtration and exhaust). The one shooter was shooting something really loud. When he finally stopped, I reached for my ear plugs to go in and then put the muffs on top of that.

I was shooting the 308 with a suppressor, so it was quite pleasant. But the other guy had something that was just loud! Turns out it was a Ruger mini-14 in 223, with a short barrel and flash suppressor.

I hate shooting indoors!

 

[Boyd Brooks]

I commanded an artillery battery, battalion, and brigade. You lads have no real idea.

You win!

 

[C.W. Richter]

Yeah, my G. Grandfather (that first took me hunting as a tyke and essentially gave his house to my parents in exchange for an oceanside stay...he had a collection of straight wall HUGE artillery shells (from WWI I think-he even left his helmet next to 'em in my parents' attic. Dad gave 'em away for fear the house would blow up! they were f'n empty. lol) His ears were SHOT (as were "younger" neighbors my Grandparents' and G. Uncle's age that shot artillery in WWII!) I'm thinking it's communicable....as I have no Pearl Harbor stories other than no ear protection as a kid (guns, music, hotrods, big tractors) and then even at my first jobs out of school (full throttle diesel rear engine drill rigs)...and now I can hear (just enough) because of later OSHA updates and non-teen common sense! I loved my G. Grandfather..but I had to repeat everything at increasingly loud volume until he got it. His fam is the reason this country even exists! HIS fam gave ALL from 1630 to 1975 here, not to mention prior!! "I hear Ya!" lol

I commanded an artillery battery, battalion, and brigade. You lads have no real idea.

 

[RobBrown505]

Standing on the fantail behind the engine shop while landing aircraft one level above without hearing protection. That or the boatswains whistle while standing next to the 1MC speaker. USS Midway circa 1990

 

[spike.t]

I commanded an artillery battery, battalion, and brigade. You lads have no real idea.

The guy back where I come from who has the gun club I am member of collects military stuff ....has a a scorpion light tank among his collection...but also has one of the classic British army 25 pounder field guns....he brought it to the range one time to let rip...only with blanks ...but yeah the noise and muzzle blast and concussion even when standing behind it were on another level to anything I have experienced.....having those or the bigger boys blasting away in an operation, and being in the crew or area must be exceedingly on the unpleasant side to put it mildly........my head was cooked after the 3 rounds he let off...not sure what anyone near the range thought was going on ...

 

[Daniel Cary]

Topography plays a BIG part! So, as a tyke 'had a .30-30 for deer, then graduated to (a borrowed, pump carbine 18.5" 30-06-had a lot of muzzle blast/flames early/late but not that loud) but I knew I had a winner when I traded my teen skills on a '56 Chevy panel deliver (no windows station wagon) hot rod a la Hollywood Knights' Pie Wagon and the guy gave me both cash and a semi custom .300 WM. That, with heavy handloads would report and echo many times, when blissfully shooting deer in the back 110 pasture/woods of an old fam farm. I really miss that sound! I know my ears aren't 100%, beginning with that gun, but it's a really beautiful sound! lol Anytime you're above 60 gr of powder (06) it's going to make a nice sound. WSMs and most LA mid-bore mags: 65-80 gr cap., big mags (90-105 gr) including several A-Sq rounds from today's post, and then the big bore DG guns from 80-120 gr! I love all those sounds, but i particularly miss the crack and echoes of the 300 WM in a "box canyon" as they call it in TX! Over water is also interesting! .257 Wby (62 gr) sounded like the aforementioned! Anything short bbl (carbine, pistol) just blows your ears out, but it's not even the same sound...it's just too close! What? Huh??

"Over water" .. if you care to explain, love to hear. Great report, many thanks.

 

[BryceM]

Shooting across the bed of a pickup. Three or four shots at a nice mulie. My ears rang for weeks..... and then the hearing on my left never really came back.